More Google diving. Man, was I pretentious: "There is an eraser shaving in the crescent of coffee grounds slowly drying in the bottom of my coffee mug."

I thought that this would be a day without blogging -- I'm just dealing with the usual end of semester crap and didn't have anything new to say. Then I saw the announcement: 20 years of Usenet available via Google.

I had forgotten some of the stuff I used to spend time writing about--poetry, fonts, even some stuff in PowerBuilder. But it's not forgotten any more -- both from my days at Virginia, where I had my first Usenet access, and at AMS, when I was first a programmer.

One thing I've noticed: my sense of typographic anal-retentiveness in monospaced type. I must have spent a really long time in the computer lab getting that early .sig file lined up just right...